Roy Arundhati

<p>En modern klassiker som har lästs och älskats över hela världen. Genom de sjuåriga tvillingarna Rahel och Estha skildras södra Indiens historia där släktbråk, kastsystem och politik har byggt murar kring kärleken. Det finns stränga regler för vem som får älska vem. Och hur mycket.<br/><br/>Men i bakgrunden, alltid närvarande, finns de små tingens gud som skänker stunder av gränslös njutning och närhet.<br/><br/>Detta är en mäktig släktkrönika såväl som en drabbande kärlekshistoria och ett skakande politiskt drama som man vill läsa många gånger.</p>

Roy Arundhati: Come September - In Conversati... [CD]

The God Of Small Things [Bok / Pocket]

The literary phenomenon of the year. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, heart-stopping language, wry comedy and a hint of magical realism. Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, The God of Small Things tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory, they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family - their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist and bottom-pincher) and their avowed enemy Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grand-aunt).

<p><b>FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF <i>MY SEDITIOUS HEART</i> AND <i>THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS</i>, A NEW AND PRESSING DISPATCH FROM THE HEART OF THE CROWD AND THE SOLITUDE OF A WRITER'S DESK</b><br/><br/>The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism.<br/><br/>Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for Freedom - a chasm or a bridge? - the streets fell silent. Not only in India, but all over the world. The Coronavirus brought with it another, more terrible understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could.<br/><br/>In this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism.<br/><br/>The essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times. The pandemic, she says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world.</p>

Den prisbelönta och internationellt kända författaren av Den yttersta lyckans ministerium och De små tingens gud, Arundhati Roy, avslöjar i Vandra med kamrater den brutala repression som den indiska regeringen bedriver i Indien. I detta intensivt engagerade reportage beskriver Roy, som haft obegränsade möjligheter att på plats följa en föga känd rebellrörelse i Indien, en händelseutveckling full av omskakande avslöjanden. Djupt inne i djungeln, under förevändning av att bekämpa maoistgerillan, bedriver den indiska regeringen ett skoningslöst och totalt krig mot de egna medborgarna. Detta krig dokumenteras endast i begränsad omfattning av en undfallande inhemsk press och understöds av storföretag, ivriga att lägga beslag på de sällsynta mineralerna under stamfolkens mark. Roy tar läsarna till de osedda frontlinjerna i denna pågående kamp och redogör för de månader hon tillbringade med gerillan i djungeln. Samtidigt som hon rapporterar om deras lokala strider, reser Roy den än större frågan om den globala kapitalismen överhuvudtaget är beredd att tolerera något samhälle utanför dess världsomspännande kontroll.

<p>A richly moving new novel -- the first since the author&apos;s Booker-Prize winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey across the Indian subcontinent - from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi and the glittering malls of the burgeoning new metropolis to the snowy mountains and valleys of Kashmir, where war is peace and peace is war, and from time to time &apos;normalcy&apos; is declared. Anjum unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. We encounter the incorrigible Saddam Hussain, the unforgettable Tilo and the three men who loved her - including Musa whose fate as tightly entwined with hers as their arms always used to be. Tilo&apos;s landlord, another former suitor, is now an Intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then there are the two Miss Jebeens: the first born in Srinagar and buried, aged four, in its overcrowded Martyrs&apos; Graveyard; the second found at midnight, in a crib of litter, on the concrete pavement of New Delhi. At once an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a heart-breaker and a mind-bender, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is told in a whisper, in a shout, through tears and sometimes with a laugh. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love-and by hope. For this reason, fragile though they may be, they never surrender. Braiding richly complex lives together, this ravishing and deeply humane novel reinvents what a novel can do and can be. And it demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy&apos;s storytelling gifts.</p>